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Vol. 1 (2025): Philogram Journal for Advanced Philosophical Research

Some Introductory Remarks on Sri Aurobindo’s Philosophy

Submitted
20 August 2025
Published
01-12-2025

Abstract

In this paper, we intend to make some introductory remarks about Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy in general, and about his understanding of Absolute as Saccidānanda and his theory of evolution in particular. My proposed discussion is primarily based on The Life Divine (henceforth, LD), The Synthesis of Yoga (henceforth, SY), The Human Cycle (henceforth, HC), The Hour of God (henceforth, HG, written between 1910—1940 and published posthumously, 1959), Essays in the Gῑtā (henceforth, EG), The Future Evolution of Man (henceforth, FEM), The Foundations of Indian Culture ( FIC.1918—1921; 1959), and secondarily on K. D Sethna’s Aspects of Sri Aurobindo (1995), Haridas Chaudhury’s  Sri Aurobindo: The Prophet of Life Divine (1973), Philosophy of Integralism (1954),  S.K. Maitra’s  An Introduction to The Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo (1941) and Arabinda Basu’s collection of Essays titled  Sri Aurobindo: The Poet, Yogi and Philosopher (2011).

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